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Why does Trump's Gaza plan sound so familiar? Because the Nazis tried it first

JL;DR SUMMARY Eric Kurlander analyzes the parallels between President Trump's proposed Gaza relocation plan and the Nazi Germany's Madagascar Plan, both involving the removal of an ethnic group from their homeland. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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TrumpGazaPalestiniansNazi GermanyUnEthnic CleansingRelocationSovereigntyMadagascar Plan

Places mentioned

Gaza Strip, Gaza, Palestinian Territories
"A man holds a crying child as displaced Palestinians check the destruction following an Israeli strike that hit a UN-run school, in the central Gaza Strip on Nov. 20, 2024."
Madagascar, French Southern Territories, France
"Eichmann and Franz Rademacher, head of the so-called Jewish Desk in the Foreign Office, seized on the long-gestating idea of resettling European Jewry in the French colony of Madagascar."
Lublin, Poland
"Adolf Eichmann, resident Jewish expert in Heinrich Himmlers SS, developed the more modest Nisko Plan to create a Jewish reservation in German-occupied Poland, near Lublin."
Stetson University, Florida, United States
"Dr. Eric Kurlander is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History and Director of Jewish Studies at Stetson University."
Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark
"Speaking at a news conference in Copenhagen last week, Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, called Trumps proposal unlawful, immoral and completely irresponsible."

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